French Open | Šwiateková – Juvanová 6: 0, 7: 5, Defending champion started very well at the French Open, Federer is also celebrating. A surprising opponent awaits Vondroušová

Defending champion Polka Iga Šwiateková defeated Kaju Juvanová 6: 0 and 7: 5 in the 1st round Roland Garros. She celebrated today’s 20th birthday with a victory. From the game outside, on the other hand, the home tennis player Alize Cornetová, who was not enough for another Frenchwoman, Harmony Tan, was the 149th player in the world. Tanová will be Markéta Vondroušová’s next opponent in the second round. Roger Federer had a winning grand slam return, defeating Denis Istomin 6: 2, 6: 4, 6: 3 in the first duel since last year’s Australian Open.

Iga Šwiateková celebrates advancing to the second round of the French Open

Benoit Tessier, Reuters

Šwiatek won the first set in 25 minutes and won the third set in a row without losing a single gamma. She followed up on the two-week-old victory twice 6-0 over Karolína Plíšková in the final of the tournament in Rome.

In the second set, Šwiateková wasted a 3: 1 lead, but in the end she defeated her longtime friend thanks to a break at 6: 5. Another rival of the ninth player in the world will be the Swede Rebecca Peterson.

Thirty-nine-year-old Federer played only one tournament in preparation for Roland Garros, but lost his first match in Geneva when he returned to clay after almost two years. However, he did not leave any doubts against Istomin, from the beginning he showed the usual show of great shots and defeated the Uzbek qualifier in 93 minutes.

The 20-time Grand Slam champion did not start last year in Paris due to a knee injury. This year, he presented himself at the French Open for the second time since 2015. This season, he played only three matches in two tournaments on the ATP circuit.

On the fifth attempt, Daniil Medvedev, the second seed, won the premiere in the clay grand slam: the Russian tennis player in Paris advanced to the second round for the first time in his career after a 6: 3, 6: 3, 7: 5 victory over Alexander Bublik from Kazakhstan. Medvedev, who lost in the first round in all four previous starts on Roland Garros, entered the match worse this time as well. At the beginning, he lost the serve and lost 0: 2, but then the finalist of this year’s Australian Open shook off the initial nervousness and won a turn against a tough opponent.

In the first round, Bianca Andreescu, who was sixth, finished sixth in Paris. Twenty-year-old Canadian, who has been suffering from health since her triumph at the US Open the year before last, lost in a balanced battle to Tamara Zidanšeková. The Slovenian tennis player, who belongs to the WTA 85th place, won after almost three and a half hours 6: 7, 7: 6, 9: 7 and passed Roland Garros to the 2nd round on the third attempt.